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Star Maker (excerpt)
Chapter 1 – The Earth THE STARTING POINT ONE night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on...
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Plastic Monks Reflecting on Pratitya-samutpada
©2007 William Grassie I was in Bangkok to give a lecture at Chulalongkorn University for the Thousand Stars Foundation,...
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The Uniqueness of Giambattista Vico’s Poetic Philosophy
Giambattista Vico’s New Science begins with an image, a frontispiece which Vico placed there so that the reader could...
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Rather Partial: The delicate art of clinging right
I’ve been a parent for twenty-seven years—but for the past ten, you could say I’ve been a partial parent....
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Shades of Determinism and Levels of Reality
Determinism refers to a particular feature of the world by which every event that occurs is the inevitable outcome...
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Youjustifications: Why are we fighting? Let me not count the ways
Youjustifications: I’m right because you just… Again, he’s ready to leave for an event and she’s not. He asks...
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Prediction in physics
A ball projected in the air moves in accordance with the laws of gravity, but the particular path it...
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Prophesy: Religious and otherwise
Another technical meaning of revelation is the unveiling of a momentous event or events to occur in the future....
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Down & Out, Up & Out, Out & Out: Reading between the lines on “Fine”
“Fine.” A single syllable, so rich in possible meanings–does it mean fine as in “You’re right,” as in “You’re...
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Family Dinner
©2006 Tom Block (On the Mythology of the Mundane series) I created this series of paintings in 1996 and...